Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Seth Ago Adjetey, Director General of the State-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), has been fired, the National Media Commission announced Wednesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has sacked his Communication Adviser Cherif Elvalide Seye and the Managing Director of State Broadcasting Corporation (RTS), Mactar Silla, informed sources said in Dakar Wednesday. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Civil society-supported West African Democracy Radio (WADR), has been refused licence to operate in Sierra Leone by the Independent Media Commission (IMC) because of security reasons, an official of the Commission said in Freetown Friday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Over 200 journalists, most of them from Africa, Friday ended a three-day Highway Africa workshop with a charter to strategize the bridging of the digital divide between Africa and the developed world. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France-based media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières or RSF), has urged Togo to refrain from presenting its new media bill to parliament, considering it to be contrary to press freedom. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- UNESCO's assistant director of Communication and head of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), Claude Ondobo of Cameroon passed away Thursday in Paris following an illness, newspapers reported Friday in Yaounde. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The Paris-based press freedom defence association, Reporters sans Frontieres (reporters without borders) on Friday urged Kenyan authorities to immediately release Njehu Gatabaki, publisher of "Finance" magazine. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verdean news agency INFOPRESS, Radio Cape Verde (RCV), private radio stations RC and Praia FM are now available on the Internet through the website www. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Pan-African News Agency (PANAPRESS) and the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP) on Monday finalised arrangements in Luanda for Angolan journalists to participate in the Portuguese service of the continental news agency, starting next month. Full text...

Malabo- Equatorial Guinea (PANA) -- Participants to the just-ended seminar organised in Malabo by UNESCO have called for professional standards and self-regulatory mechanisms to govern press freedom in Equatorial Guinea. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde Television (TCV) director Maria Rosario da Luz has been relieved of her functions by the board of the corporation (RTC), sources disclosed in Praia. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Matatha Tsedu resigned his post Monday as Acting Chief Executive (News) at the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), citing "personal reasons," adding to the growing number of top officials that have left the Corporation's News Department in the last one month. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- President Omar Bongo of Gabon has urged fellow sub regional peers Ange Felix Patasse of the Central African Republic and Idriss Deby of Chad to show restraint, as tension mounts between the two neighbours following a clash on their borders. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkinabe police have arrested Newton Ahmed Barry, Editor-in-Chief of the country's monthly magazine 'L'Evenement,' the private daily 'Le Pays," reported Friday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Journalists accredited in Niger have strongly denounced a presidential decree restricting information on recent events within the military, notably a mutiny by soldiers in garrisons east of the country. Full text...

Malabo- Equatorial Guinea (PANA) -- Equatorial Guinea's premier Candido Muatetema Rivas said Thursday in Malabo that a faculty of information sciences will be created at the country's university. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- A correspondent of the French News Agency (AFP) in Burkina Faso, Christophe Koffi, an Ivorian, was arrested Wednesday night by Burkinabe police, who also searched his residence, informed sources said Thursday in Ouagadougou. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea Bissau's National Television workers will launch a two-week partial strike from Thursday, Union President Salif Seydi, announced Wednesday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's Audio-visual and Communication Authority (HAAC), has earmarked some 180 million CFA francs (about 261,287 US dollars) for the training of media workers in the country. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- Amnesty International (AI) has attacked the National Media Commission Bill recently passed by Parliament in Gambia, saying it contained several provisions that were incompatible with international conventions binding on the West African country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Nation Media Group, Kenya's biggest media conglomerate, announced on Wednesday that its mid-year profit rose to 77. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a holding a three-day seminar in Dakar to sensitise some 30 journalists from sub-Saharan countries on the concepts, principles and strategic objectives of sustainable development. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian News Agency (APS) managing director Nacer Mehal and his counterpart of the Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) Rabie Abdelati signed a cooperation agreement in Algiers at the weekend, on the exchange of information and experiences. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Reporters without borders, a Paris- based press freedom defence organisation, has expressed serious concern after the Cameroon police at the Douala airport impounded the passport of Pius Njawe, the managing director of 'Le Messager', a tri-weekly newspaper. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The trial opened in the Zimbabwe capital Harare Wednesday of a journalist working for a British newspaper, accused of writing a false story. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Cote d'Ivoire will 5-10 July host the next meeting of the International French-speaking Press Union (UIJPF), officials indicated Tuesday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Mbalmayo-based "Radio Femmes FM," a broadcast station created for, and run by women, has made a big hit on the population, with other regions in Cameroon itching to try the new community radio initiative. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Cell phone giant, Vodacom, is offering South Africa's most lucrative media prize in a new competition to honour excellence in journalism. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundi's National Communication Council Friday condemned authorities for exerting pressure on editors of the privately owned Radio Publique Africaine for conducting investigations into a murder case. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin was due to visit Gabon Tuesday and later Senegal, for talks with Presidents Omar Bongo and Abdoulaye Wade on the crisis in Madagascar, a French official said in Paris. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In a move calculated to ward off government control of the media, Kenyan journalists Monday launched a self-regulatory, though not statutory Media Council to arbitrate public complaints against news organs. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Neama ould Omar, a Mauritanian journalist and member of the Committee for the Respect of Norms and Ethics (CRED), was released at the weekend after three days in detention. Full text...

Malabo- Equatorial Guinea (PANA) -- Equato-Guinean journalist and PANA correspondent Rodrigo Angue Nguema was at the weekend verbally assaulted by Malabo police and denied access to a court trying 144 defendants accused of plotting to overthrow President Theodoro Obiang Nguema. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- A Dakar-based media research institution has described the future of female journalists in Liberia as "grim". Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota, editor in chief of the Harare-based 'Daily News,' is recipient of the 2002 Gold Pen award for press freedom. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Police in Zimbabwe Tuesday arrested two journalists from the privately-owned weekly Standard newspaper over alleged false story carried in its latest edition. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian cabinet has adopted a bill to amend an existing press law, an official statement has said in Abidjan. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- An Egyptian higher administrative court has lifted a ban on a paper which provoked riots by Coptic Christians in 2001 after publishing articles and photos of a man presented as a monk frolicking with a naked woman. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The government in Harare Sunday appointed new chief executives for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and the national news agency, the Zimbabwe Inter-Africa News Agency. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- Article 19, an international organisation that fights for press freedom, has expressed concern over the "excessive control" of the public media in the Gambia by President Yahya Jammeh's government. Full text...

Antananarivo- Madagascar (PANA) -- Jacques Sylla, Prime Minister in the contested government of President Marc Ravalomanana, has appealed for support from the UN, the OAU and donor countries in the post-election imbroglio with supporters of former president Didier Ratsiraka. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A Zimbabwean businessman Friday launched a Sunday newspaper to compete with three others already on the market. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Ahead of a second mediation meeting dubbed Dakar II, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has proposed an "Inter-Malagasy National Forum" to reconcile the protagonists in Madagascar's post-election crisis, diplomatic sources in the Senegalese capital indicated earlier Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A highly disputed media law passed earlier this month by Parliament in Kenya and pending enactment by President Daniel arap Moi has continued to receive widespread outcry from the public, with more groups calling for its suspension. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The government in Burundi has banned the public and private press in the country from interviewing any rebel leader as private radio stations have done in the past weeks. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean police Thursday released three journalists detained for publishing a an apparent false story about the murder of an opposition supporter by members of the ruling party. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- The editorial director of the Togolese newspaper 'Le Reporter des Temps Nouveaux,' Augustin Amega, was arrested in Lome Monday, according to sources close to the concerned who explained that he was on his way to a clinic where his wife had just delivered when he was arrested by elements of the gendarmerie. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Police in Zimbabwe Tuesday arrested two reporters working for an independent daily newspaper for writing a false story last week about a politically-motivated murder. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Botswana press has reacted with suspicion at the unprecedented resignation of Botswana Television general manager Oshinka Tsiang this weekend, blaming the newly appointed information and broadcasting minster Daniel Kwelagobe of easing Tsiang out of his post. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Journalists and the media in general have paid a heavy toll to terrorism in recent years, UNESCO said Monday. Full text...